Alcoa strikes $3.1b cash-and-stock deal for South32’s key aluminium assets
Alcoa Corporation is acquiring South32’s key aluminium assets in a USD 3.1 billion deal in cash plus 17,008,960 Alcoa shares, expanding its upstream aluminium portfolio across Australia, Brazil and South Africa. The transaction will also give South32 and its shareholders an equity interest in the...
Rio Tinto adds Aurukun's 8 tpa bauxite opportunity to growing Cape York pipeline
The acquisition gives Rio Tinto control of a major undeveloped Cape York resource as it expands its existing Weipa operations and advances new mining areas. Rio Tinto is expanding its Cape York bauxite portfolio by acquiring the Aurukun bauxite project from Glencore and Mitsubishi, adding a...
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Australian Bauxite Ltd submits mining lease application for fully funded Sunrise Bauxite Project
Australian Bauxite Ltd made public towards the submission of mining lease application for fully-funded Sunrise Bauxite Project, Binjour QLD. If the application is approved then the bauxite will be shipped from the port of Bundaberg. Australian Bauxite Limited that operates mines in Tasmania...
Metallica Minerals sells its shares in Urquhart Bauxite Project to Clear Logistics Australia Pty Ltd
According to a recent report, Metallica Minerals Limited has entered into a sale agreement with Clear Logistics Australia Pty Ltd, a private company with experience in bauxite, heavy mineral sand and industrial sand, and gravel operations. The latter will purchase Metallica’s subsidiary company...
Australian Bauxite confirm shipments of 33,405 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite from Bell Bay port
Australian Bauxite Ltd confirmed shipments of 33,915 tonnes of cement and fertiliser grade bauxites for three months to 30 September 2020. The Group’s available cash at the end of the quarter was $1.7 million and is currently is about $1.3 million. “Alcore’s Memorandum of Understanding with the...
Metro Mining’s bauxite shipment stands at 1.230 million tonnes in September quarter
Metro Mining reported production and shipping results for September quarter 2020. The company produced 1.062 million wet metric tonnes (WMT) of bauxite in September quarter, down from 1.419 million tonnes in June quarter. The year-to-date production came in at 2.481 million tonnes. The shipments...
Australian Aluminium Council welcomes “VBX Limited”, the first member in category of Bauxite explorers and mine proponents
The Australian Aluminium Council has welcomed the VBX Limited as a new member. In 2020, the Council created a new membership category, enabling bauxite explorers and mine proponents to join the Council. VBX is the first member of this category. VBX is the proponents of the Wuudagu Bauxite Project...
Canyon Resources: “Dimitri Bacopanos” joins the board as Non-Executive Director
Canyon Resources Ltd has announced that Mr Dimitri Bacopanos joined the Board of as a Non-Executive Director. Mr Bacopanos’ appointment follows the completion of the successful A$10 million equity placement by the Company, including completion of the A$5.6m investment in Canyon by interests...
Monash University: Engineers reveals improvements in the fatigue life of high strength aluminium alloys by 25 times
Monash University, a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia has come up with a world-first study by its engineers, as they have demonstrated improvements in the fatigue life of high strength aluminium alloys by 25 times, which is a significant outcome for the transport...
Austal: Perth-based Aluminium shipbuilding giant is ASX’s thriving defence sector
The Australian Securities Exchange, ASX, has a small but thriving defence sector that is rolling out some impressive technology into larger potential markets; in reality, it means export success. The most venerable of the ASX’s defence stocks are the remarkable flourishing of Perth-based aluminium...
Australian Mines Ltd. seek out to develop next-gen aluminium alloys using scandium
Founded in 2001 and ASX-listed, Australian Mines Ltd. is seeking to evolve new aluminium alloys using scandium, which will be sourced from the Sconi project in Queensland. The mining company has allied with Victoria-based Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials for the project, which...
Aluminium Façade Systems unveils its first product line ProClad SOLID aluminium panels in 3mm and 4mm options
Aluminium Façade Systems has recently launched its first product line ProClad SOLID in the market, in support of Alspec, Australia’s market-leading aluminium system specialists with over 46 years of experience. Aluminium Façade Systems is a new company specialising in high quality and fully...
Commercial vehicle manufacturer “Hino” expands its 300 series BTG in Australia, trays made from high grade extruded Aluminium
The Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer, Hino, has expanded its 300 Series Built to Go (BTG) in Australia to provide light-duty truck operators with more options. Daniel Petrovski, Hino Australia, Product and Strategy Manager said: “The Hino BTG range provides high quality, durable and...
Built on Aluminium mono frame Vanderhall to debut all-electric three-wheeled roadster in Australia
Vanderhall, the US-based motor works company will debut its three-wheeled all-electric roadster in Australia towards the latter half of 2021. The attention-getting, retro-styled Edison² is sitting somewhere between a trike and a small sportscar, whereas to drive the vehicle, one does not require a...
A00 aluminium ingot price declines by RMB50/t after three days of hike in a row; Australian alumina FOB price shrinks by $2/t
A00 aluminium ingot price has recorded a plunge of RMB 50 per tonne to stand at RMB 14,680 per tonne on Wednesday, September 30, following three consecutive hikes from RMB 14,270 per tonne to RMB 14,730 per tonne during September 24-29, found the Shanghai Metals Market. The average prices today are...
Chevron secures contract from Alcoa Australia to supply more gas at Alumina refineries
Chevron, the American multinational energy corporation has signed an agreement to supply a supplementary 37PJ (962mn m³) of gas sourced from the three LNG projects located offshore Western Australia (WA) to Alcoa's alumina refineries in the southwest part of the state, adding to an existing...
Alpha HPA manufactures 99.99% high purity alumina coating pre-cursor materials for lithium-ion batteries cathodes and anodes
Alpha HPA has reportedly manufactured a batch of 99.99% high purity alumina (HPA) coating pre-cursor material at its demonstration plant as part of its HPA First project that aims to produce 10,000 tonnes per annum HPA and related products. The material is meant for using in coating cathode and...
Rio Tinto nearing the completion of its two alumina refineries maintenance work in Gladstone
Rio Tinto has considerably progressed with its $75 million planned maintenance shutdown work at two of its alumina refineries in Gladstone, Queensland this year. Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, the mining giant conducted maintenance work at Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refinery by using...
Vestdavit secures contract from Royal Australian Navy to deliver patrol boats, aluminium structured for lightweight and anti-corrosion
Vestdavit, the leading davit supplier has secured an agreement with Austal Australia to supply twelve boat launch-and-recovery systems for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The marine davits will be installed on six new Cape-class patrol boats (CCPBs), under construction for the Navy at Austal’s...
Timber-look aluminium decking system ‘DecoDeck’ receives an award as the best product design hardware
DecoDeck, the timber-look aluminium decking system from Deco Australia, has bagged an award at the 2020 Australian Good Design Awards in the category Product Design Hardware and Building. The Good Design Awards represents Australia’s most renowned annual international awards programme for design...
